Mr. Smith has extensive experience structuring cross-border acquisitions and divestitures (both tax-free and taxable), international joint ventures, tax-free spin-offs, financings (public debt offerings and syndicated private debt placements), and internal corporate restructurings. He has represented Fortune 500 companies in connection with IRS controversies, including supporting clients at the audit level and at IRS appeals including Early Referral and Fast-Track Settlement procedures.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Smith was a Tax Partner with Jones Day for more than a decade, advising clients on an array of public, private, domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, and capital markets transactions; and domestic and cross-border planning projects including. Previously he was a Tax Partner with KPMG, where he held several leadership positions.

Mr. Smith earned a BBA (accounting emphasis) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School.